... Mushroom Sauce & Spring Greens
So this weekend I’m in Bath. Bath is one of my favourite places in the world and i’m staying with my friends Pieter and Erin. Saturday morning was spent in the market with Erin buying the ingredients for the three meals i’m going to cook this weekend. I brought the most amazing mushrooms. The last few ingredients were bought in the supermarket.
This meal requires four fillet steak medallions. I do not eat fillet steak very much at all. It’s one of those things that feels a bit opulent and it is reserved for a rare (rare) treat. There were two fillets to choose from. The Aberdeen Angus one looked so much better, the meat was this deep purpley colour. The shape of this fillet was rounder and it suited the medallions required much better. The Aberdeen Angus fillet is more expensive, of course. But despite the cost, four medallions of the Aberdeen Angus steak is bought. Sometimes it just feels right to spend more than is reasonable on some really good ingredients. As one of the rules of doing this project is that every meal in the book must be cooked, one of the benefits is that it means that I have to cook some of the more special meals, the things that are just a rare treat, have to be cooked, they just have to be.
Actually cooking this one was easy. As with most of these meals it’s quite important to get on with things at the beginning and so that all the various elements of the meal are underway. But once that happened (potatoes and cabbage boiling, mushrooms frying, steak frying) there wasn’t much else to do. Now I said the potatoes and cabbage were boiling. The problem was they were not boiling. Pieter and Erin’s hob really only has one burner that gives of a high heat. It is used for the steak first. Then things are moved around and its used for the mushrooms. The steak is done and the mushroom sauce is done and on the serving plate before the fifteen minutes are up. The potatoes are not cooked. Not remotely. The veg pan is moved to the one burner that works on a high heat. They are done after 21 minutes and the meal is served by twenty two minutes and twenty two seconds.
This meal is great. Obviously it is a very nice treat to have fillet steak. But every thing else is delicious. The greens are really lovely. They are drizzled in lemon juice and olive oil. They taste great and fresh. The mushroom sauce and the beautiful oyster mushrooms are gorgeous. A really nice and special meal.
I’m not to bothered about the time. This could be done in the fifteen minutes, i’m sure. After dinner was fireworks, watched for free from the bridge, and after fireworks a very lovely chocolate orange cake made by Erin.
Who with: Pieter and Erin
How long: Twenty two minutes and twenty two seconds
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